General Discussions

**Lpspider** · 07-31-2006, 01:24 PM

Okay, lately I've been getting a lot of spam comments on my blog... like random characters like "aasfadfasf" with a link. I don't approve these, but when you're getting mid XX comments a day that are spam, how do you moderate them? I don't want to sift through them all.

**sitedesigner** · 07-31-2006, 01:29 PM

I've noticed the same exact thing too... especially on my photoshop tutorial blog. I dislike it a lot, but it keeps popping up

**Andreas Bard** · 07-31-2006, 01:30 PM

Do you use wordpress? Arent there like a plug-in that helps with comment-spam? check the plugin section in admin.

Fortunately for me, the real spamming have not started yet.

//Andreas

**garg** · 07-31-2006, 01:33 PM

Akismet has stopped most of my wordpress spam.

**Andreas Bard** · 07-31-2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garg

Akismet has stopped most of my wordpress spam.

Yes, that is the one for wordpress right?

//Andreas

**sitedesigner** · 07-31-2006, 01:37 PM

And what is Akismet? I'd be interested in having you tell me more garg.

**Andreas Bard** · 07-31-2006, 01:47 PM

Matthew,

If you look in the adminpanel of WordPress you see a link in the menu called "Plugins" there you will be able to activate it and probably read about it.

//Andreas

**sitedesigner** · 07-31-2006, 01:48 PM

ah, Thank you Andreas. I'm not too familiar with WordPress. Thanks for telling me that.

**garg** · 07-31-2006, 01:49 PM

You'll also have to sign up with wordpress.com to get the API key for Akismet. After you enter that then all or most of your wordpress spam will be gone

**Lpspider** · 07-31-2006, 01:53 PM

Thanks - I'll look into it. I deffinately need it.

**Plugin-Developer** · 07-31-2006, 02:12 PM

Thanks for the advice. I had been having this problem too and couldn't figure out what benefit people hoped to gain from something like this:

aadsf [poker link] fefsssj

Oh well... spammers suck.

-Nick

**sitedesigner** · 07-31-2006, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garg

You'll also have to sign up with wordpress.com to get the API key for Akismet. After you enter that then all or most of your wordpress spam will be gone

and I assume that that is free, correct?

**Karl89.co.uk** · 07-31-2006, 06:37 PM

I just have all my comments on moderation. Doesn't really bother me since my blog is very small.

There are loads of people who are spamming blogs though, mainly adult related stuff.

**microdude431** · 07-31-2006, 06:45 PM

I use a free plug-in off wordpress.com and it totally stopped all the spam. I use to get XXX per day, now I dont even get any.

**Lpspider** · 07-31-2006, 06:45 PM

Yeah, most of what I get is viagra crap spam.

**garg** · 07-31-2006, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matthew

and I assume that that is free, correct?

Yes. Totally free

I think B5Media got some huge deal with Akismet and they are managing their entire blog network against spam (I don't have a link.. i just remember reading that)

**Tran** · 07-31-2006, 11:59 PM

I think that there are just those gay people out there who just love to spam up places.. I've received spam from some of my contact forms and have banned the IPs

**Lpspider** · 08-01-2006, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Tran

I think that there are just those gay people out there who just love to spam up places.. I've received spam from some of my contact forms and have banned the IPs

Probably that too, but mainly people trying to get people to visit their website or gain PR. Too bad they don't know ( I didn't ) that PR isn't passed through a wordpress blog (which mine is) because of the rel=nofollow link.